105 Quotes by Will Cuppy

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    Just when you're beginning to think pretty well of people, you run across somebody who puts sugar on sliced tomatoes.

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    If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

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    The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled.

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    If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

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    The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.

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    I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country.

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    It's easy to see the faults in people I know; it's hardest to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there.

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    As you know statistics show that a certain number of people get married each year and the rest don't. Well, I got into the wrong bunch of statistics. I should be pitied instead of questioned.

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    They [the Pilgrims] believed in freedom of thought for themselves and for all other people who believed exactly as they did.

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